| 单词 | cumulative |
| 释义 | cumulative (once / 2318 pages) adj The adjective cumulative describes the total amount of something when it's all added together. Eating a single chocolate doughnut is fine, but the cumulative effect of eating them all day is that you'll probably feel sick. The origin of cumulative is helpful in remembering the meaning; it comes from the Latin cumulatus for "to heap." If something is cumulative, it is heaped together so it can be counted up to get a total number. The cumulative snowfall for the whole winter isn't just the amount of snow that fell in one month, but rather the number of inches that fell every month that winter to get the total, cumulative, amount. WORD FAMILYcumulative: cumulatively+/cumulate: cumulated, cumulates, cumulating, cumulation, cumulative/cumulation: cumulations/cumulous: cumulously/cumulus: cumulate, cumuli, cumulous USAGE EXAMPLESThere was no increase in 2016, so the cumulative increase - including the January hike - is 27 cents per gallon over four years. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Here are the top 10, all videos, ordered according to cumulative likes, shares and comments. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) But Mr. Netanyahu is also a focus of international ire because of the cumulative effect of decades of settlement growth. New York Times(Mar 12, 2015) adj increasing by successive addition the benefits are cumulative Syn accumulative additive characterized or produced by addition |
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